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Michael Ray

Michael Ray

Acting
24 Dec 1952 (73 years)
Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Michael Ray (born December 24, 1952) is an American jazz trumpeter. He tours extensively with Kool & the Gang, Sun Ra and the successor Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen's direction following Sun Ra's passing. For a period from the mid-1990s to the present he leads his own band, Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe. His playing with Sun Ra and independently has incorporated funkjazz, R & B, electronica and fusion genres. He is originally from Trenton, New Jersey and was born December 24, 1952. H...

Also Known As

Kool & the Gang, Kool and the Gang

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